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authorDylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com>2020-03-12 11:13:17 -0700
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docs: Add Environment variables for compiler/linker selection
We really should be documenting these in an easy to find and reference place.
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@@ -255,3 +255,22 @@ These are the values that can be passed to `dependency` function's
| config-tool | Use a custom dep tool such as `cups-config` |
| system | System provided (e.g. OpenGL) |
| extraframework | A macOS/iOS framework |
+
+
+## Compiler and Linker selection variables
+
+| Language | Compiler | Linker | Note |
+|:-------------:|----------|-----------|---------------------------------------------|
+| C | CC | CC_LD | |
+| C++ | CXX | CXX_LD | |
+| D | DC | DC_LD | Before 0.54 D_LD* |
+| Fortran | FC | FC_LD | Before 0.54 F_LD* |
+| Objective-C | OBJC | OBJC_LD | |
+| Objective-C++ | OBJCXX | OBJCXX_LD | Before 0.54 OBJCPP_LD* |
+| Rust | RUSTC | RUSTC_LD | Before 0.54 RUST_LD* |
+| Vala | VALAC | | Use CC_LD. Vala transpiles to C |
+| C# | CSC | CSC | The linker is the compiler |
+
+*The old environment variales are still supported, but are deprecated and will
+be removed in a future version of meson.
+